Tomas powers D-backs to victory with 2 HRs

MILWAUKEE — Yasmany Tomas continued his season-long trend of producing on the road by smacking two home runs and driving in five runs to back an outstanding pitching performance from Archie Bradley as the D-backs cruised to an 8-1 win over the Brewers on Wednesday night at Miller Park.

The D-backs jumped out in front with five runs in the first inning — three on Tomas’ homer to left-center. Tomas raised his average on the road to .302 as opposed to .223 at Chase Field, and 14 of his 17 home runs have come away from home.

It was a sloppy first two innings defensively for Milwaukee, which committed three errors in the first and two more in the second. Shortstop Jonathan Villar committed a pair of errors and right fielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis made three.

“We took advantage of some of their mistakes and got the five, and that was huge,” D-backs manager Chip Hale said. “Archie went out and was in a little bit of trouble in the first and got some breaks, and Archie pretty much cruised from there.”

That was more than enough support for Bradley, who yielded one run over seven innings to raise his record to 4-6. The Brewers’ lone run off him came in the seventh when Jonathan Lucroy doubled and later scored on Hernan Perez’s sac fly.

“It was a tough night,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “It was a strange night. You just put it in the rearview mirror and move on.”

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDRoad power: Tomas is tied with Baltimore’s Mark Trumbo with five multi-homer games this year. All five of Tomas’ multi-homer games have come on the road. The only D-backs player with more multi-homer road games in a season is Luis Gonzalez, who had six in 2001. Tomas has four homers through the first six games of this road trip.

“It starts in the cage and we were working on following the ball all the …

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